Affiliations

The following organizations are ones where I play and active or advisory role.

Zenoss – Open Source Systems Monitoring

I serve as the VP of Community for Zenoss, an commercial  open source systems management vendor. Founded in 2005, Zenoss is a privately held company funded by Grotech Capital Group, Intersouth Partners, Boulder Ventures and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. The company is based in Annapolis, MD with offices in Austin, TXZenoss is a leader in commercial open source network and systems management, providing solutions to monitor the availability and performance of the entire IT infrastructure. A powerful alternative to traditional enterprise management suites, Zenoss delivers solutions for IT organizations of all sizes that are easy to use, affordable, and complete.

Zenoss portfolio products range from Zenoss Core™, the award-winning Open Source platform, to several commercial editions (Zenoss Professional™, Zenoss Enterprise™, and Zenoss for Service Providers™) which include additional capabilities, support and deployment options, and IP assurance. Zenoss products have been deployed in over 18,000 organizations in 175 countries. Companies such as Rackspace, VMware, Tyco Electronics, SugarCRM, Capgemini, and Formica have deployed Zenoss commercial offerings to help avoid costly IT outages, providing better support to their own employees and customers. Awards given to Zenoss and Zenoss products include InfoWorld’s BOSSIE for Best Open Source Network Monitoring Solution, Enterprise Open Source Magazine Readers’ Choice Award, and Network World’s Clear Choice Award.

MindTouch – Social Collaboration Software

I am on the Board of Advisors of MindTouch an open source wiki and social collaboration company. MindTouch Deki is recognized as the most sophisticated, popular, award-winning, enterprise-scale, open source collaboration solution in the market today. MindTouch Deki is built with a Web Oriented Architecture (WOA), enables users to connect teams, enterprise systems, publishing systems, Web services and Web 2.0 applications to create unique content oriented experiences while maintaining IT governance.

Acclaimed the best enterprise collaboration platform in the market today, MindTouch has millions of users. MindTouch Deki is deployed by Fortune 500 companies, major media, research/education institutions, government agencies, and online businesses worldwide. Customers include Microsoft, Fujitsu, Siemens, Gannett, The Washington Post, Intel, U.S. Army, DoD, and others. MindTouch is committed to delivering next generation solutions to people, businesses, and governments that deliver significant productivity and operational efficiency gains.

Sourceforge – World’s Largest Repository of Open Source Software

I serve on the SourceForge advisory board along with other open source and technology professionals including Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief of Wired), Brian Behlendorf (founding member of the Apache Software Foundation, Mozilla Board Member),  Bruce Perens (author of the open source definition), Sam Ramji (Sr. Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft Corporation), and Roberto Gallopini (Italian open source entrepreneur and blogger).

SourceForge’s media and e-commerce web sites connect millions of influential technology professionals and enthusiasts each day. Combining user-developed content, online marketplaces and e-commerce, SourceForge is the global technology community’s nexus for information exchange, goods for geeks, and open source software distribution and services. The network of web sites enables advertisers to efficiently reach a large, highly qualified audience of buyers. This network serves more than 33 million unique visitors each month from around the world, per data collected from Google Analytics and Omniture.

Open Management Consortium – Open Source Systems Management Consortium

I was the co-founder and presideent of the Open Management Consortium. In May 2006 the Open Management Consortium was announced to help advance the promotion, adoption, development and integration of open source systems /network management software. The founding members of the consortium are Ayamon, Emu Software, Qlusters, Symbiot, Webmin, and Zenoss.

Specific objectives of the Open Management Consortium include:

• Create awareness of open source management tools in the market
• Provide education and resources to help end users make informed decisions regarding open source
• Establish conventions and standards that enable integration and interoperability
• Enable collaboration and coordination on common development projects
• Promote collaborative open source systems management solutions

Open source systems management replaces monolithic vendor lock-in with a modular approach. Pick what you need, customize it to your exact specifications and add to it as your needs change. Because open source products welcome contributions by users, partners and other third parties, they must be standards-based. This standards-based approach facilitates interoperability between open source solutions across the systems management life cycle.

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